Job Link Project Awarded Grant

November 21, 1998

WINDHAM — The Access Agency has been awarded a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to start a program to help families get off welfare.

Through the agency's Welfare- To-Work Job Link Project, people with ``significant barriers'' to employment will be given assistance such as on-the-job training, basic education, drug-abuse treatment and transportation with the goal of getting them full-time employment, according to Kerrie Jones Clark, executive director of the regional agency.

The Access Agency will serve as a central clearinghouse for all those services so clients will not have to visit separate agencies, Clark said. About 100 people are expected to participate.